forms of psychological or pathological reaction of a person to a disease or disorder (see Nosogeny in Chapter 2.5. Key Psychological Concepts in the Psychology of Special Categories). It depends on age, gender, characteristics of the disease or disorder, as well as characterological features – harmonious personalities usually adequately perceive a somatic disease, in accentuated personalities the reaction to the disease is pathological. The following reactions of the personality to the disease are distinguished:
1) normognosia – an adequate assessment of the severity of the disease,
2) agnosia – lack of awareness of one’s disease,
3) hypognosia – underestimation of the severity of the disease,
4) hypergnosia – overestimation of the severity of the existing disease.